Wednesday - Sarah Walker with William Boyd
With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Gianandrea Noseda - Ten Years of Musica Italiana; Proms Artist of the Week: Nicola Benedetti.
Sarah Walker's guest this week is the author William Boyd. Also, at 9:30, our daily brainteaser: Back to the Beginning
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Gianandrea Noseda - Ten Years of Musica Italiana. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Nicola Benedetti
10:30
Sarah's guest this week is the prize-winning African-born author and screenwriter William Boyd, whose novels include A Good Man in Africa, An Ice Cream War, Any Human Heart and Solo - a new James Bond novel continuing the adventures of Ian Fleming's spy hero. His screenplays include Richard Attenborough's biopic Chaplin, recalling the glamorous life of the famous silent-film star, and The Trench (which Boyd also directed), set 24 hours before the battle of the Somme, and an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop.
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Back to the Beginning
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Giuseppe Tartini
Violin Concerto in A minor, D115 "A Lunardo Venier"
Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Curnyn.- Decca.
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Alfredo Catalani
La Wally: 鈥楨bben! Ne andro Lontana鈥�
Singer: Victoria de los 脕ngeles. Conductor: Giuseppe Morelli. Orchestra: The Rome Opera Orchestra.- EMI.
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Thomas Crecquillon
Congratulamini Mihi
Choir: Stile Antico.- Harmonia Mundi.
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Claude Debussy
La fille aux cheveux de lin (Preludes, Book 1)
Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.- Decca.
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Jean Fran莽aix
Theme and Variations
Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: Bradley Moore.- Signum.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Rondo in C, K.373
Conductor: James MacMillan. Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.- Decca.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Cinderella Op.87 (Grand Waltz)
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.- Decca.
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Johann Strauss II
Kaiser-Walzer, Op 437
Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.- Capriccio.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Douze morceaux Op.40: Chant sans paroles
Performer: Boris Berezovsky.- Mirare.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto polonois in G major
Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.- L'Oiseau-Lyre.
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E.J. Moeran
Symphony in G minor - Allegro
Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.- Chandos.
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Ermanno Wolf鈥怓errari
Overture to 鈥楲a dama boba鈥�
Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.- Chandos.
Today's Brainteaser Answer - Back to the Beginning
The music played:
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Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
DECCA 452 022 2
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